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Scottish Enterprise has awarded a £3.8 million grant to help US clinical research company Q2 Solutions develop a global centre of excellence in West Lothian. The company aims to created 156 skilled jobs over the next three years by establishing a centre of excellence in flow cytometry and geno

Work will begin this year to build a new distillery on the Ardgowan Estate near Inverkip after Ardgowan Distillery confirmed an £8.4 million equity investment into the business. The substantial new equity, £7.2m of which comes from Austrian investor Roland Grain and the balance

Scotland's unemployment rate crept up to 4.2 per cent between February and April 2021, according to the latest ONS labour market statistics. The employment rate decreased slightly to 74.2%, with 2.4 million payrolled employees in Scotland – 50,000 fewer than in February 2020, pre-Covid.

Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) should be scrapped as part of a "radical overhaul" aimed at unleashing a "revolution in entrepreneurialism", a think tank has said. A new report from the right-wing Reform Scotland think tank suggests that an independent Scotland could f

A trainee paralegal with a gambling addiction who embezzled more than £220,000 from Aberdein Considine has been jailed for 16 months, The Press and Journal reports. At Aberdeen Sheriff Court, Callum Scott, 23, admitted stealing the sum from the law firm in order to deal with a number of payday

A volunteer litter picker was baffled after picking up a purported £1 million bank note with no clear origin.

A lawyer who exaggerated her billings by up to 570 per cent to secure prestigious jobs with major London law firms has been struck off.

Chartered accountants Wylie & Bisset has announced the formation of an "exclusive strategic alliance" with the TAG Accountants Community. The alliance positions Wylie & Bisset as the only full-service practice supporting independent firms throughout Scotland.

Independent financial advisory firm Phil Anderson Financial Services has announced the appointment of Andrew Scouller as a financial adviser and Emma Reid as a trainee financial adviser. The double appointment brings the Aberdeenshire-headquartered firm's headcount to 15, more than twice the seven m

Scottish financial services chief Anne Richards has been honoured with a damehood in the Queen's birthday honours. Ms Richards, chief executive of Fidelity International, has been recognised for services to financial services, women, education and science.

A vacant builder’s yard and workshop in Bannockburn village has been sold out of liquidation to property developers Lovell Partnership Ltd in a deal which will regenerate the historical site and create 41 new homes, including ten affordable properties. Paul Dounis and Lindsey Cooper of RSM Res

Three lawyers have joined Blackadders’ commercial property team. Andy Yule has been appointed as a director in Edinburgh while in Glasgow Richard Duffy has taken up a senior solicitor role and Natalia Bell has joined as a solicitor.

Former miners who transferred pension funds after they were made redundant could claim tens of thousands of pounds in compensation. Glasgow and Yorkshire-based solicitors Corries has acted for men who were given bad advice and told to leave employer-run pension schemes. 

East Kilbride construction company Cosmos Projects has expanded to become the Cosmos Projects Group with the creation of two new divisions and the appointment of its first non-executive chairman. Co-founded in 2012 by Chris McNeill, Cosmos Projects has grown year on year to record a £3.3

Professor Colin Harvey of Queen's University Belfast School of Law considers the post-Brexit challenges for Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland has always been, and remains, a ‘special arrangement’. The changes in the leadership of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) do not alter the basi